[ale] Authors, Small Businesses, Consultants etc.

[Bjorn Roche]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Sergio Chaves wrote:

> Unfortunately, no I did not.
> Two basic reasons: time, expertise.
> We only had ten days per trip to accomplish all goals and also because
> networking is my weakest area on IT :o(
>
> Besides, budget is <B>very</B> short in Panama. All the work is done by 
> volunteers like my wife and I.
> The mission can not afford to buy new books, PC parts in general, etc. 
> Everything I sent down
> there was donated. 
> When returning to Panama, I "intend" to build a "simple-sort-of-efective" 
> firewall (Smoothwall ?),
> a print server, a dial-up server (no broadband available/affordable). These 
> are my primary goals.
>
> <shameless request here>
> If anyone is interested on donating old PCs (working condition :o) ), parts,
> howto books on above topics,  etc., feel free to contact me off the list. We 
> ship containers w/ donations
> three times per year
> </shameless request here>
>
> Sergio
>
> ps; Bjorn, somehow I missed your posting. I will start putting everything

I cc'ed you this time just in case.

> together for you.
>    How soon do you need it?

A few days before LISA is fine. I don't yet know if it's going to be 
something like a goodie bag, a poster, or what, so let me know what you 
wanted to do.

An idea I had for you would be to make some photocopied 3-fold fliers 
saying what you've done and including a request for supplies. Explain what 
kind of charity you are (church, 501 (c) (3), etc), too. That would be 
cheap for you and easy for me to distribute. Anyway, that's just a 
thought.

Thanks again to you and Bob for doing this! I'd love to have more 
involvement from the list too! Perhaps I need another e-mail?

 	bjorn

> Bob Toxen wrote:
>
>> Have you included computer and network security in the training?
>> 
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>> 
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 05:30:41PM -0400, Bjorn Roche wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Sergio Chaves wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Well, here is what I got:
>>>> 
>>>> On my latest Church Mission trip to Panama, I installed 41 PCs (PIIs 
>>>> 350/550) with Guadalinex EDU, a  spanish Knoppix
>>>> spin-off from AndaLucia built for the Educational Environment, and 
>>>> 4pcs with SuSe Linux 9.1 (2 english and 2 in spanish).
>>>> Ten PCs stayed at the mission and 33 were donated to the local school 
>>>> system.
>>>> Activities involved a crash course on Open Source/Linux and numerous 
>>>> books/tutorials in spanish and english.
>>>> My wife and I plan to go back next year and implement: 
>>>> networking/colaboration software/web, etc.
>>>> 
>>>> While in Panama, I was invited to implement Linux in all Government 
>>>> branches of Tanzania and Mozanbique, a two year
>>>> effort which I had to decline but let myself available for any 
>>>> help/tech support they needed. I have some pictures of the lab and the 
>>>> PCs being built plus the mission itself.
>>>> 
>>>> If that interests you, let me know and I can write you a summary and 
>>>> forward you the pictures as well.
>>>> 
>>> That sounds like a really cool thing! It would be neat to have some 
>>> pictures and a summary. If you have anything digital you want to send me 
>>> (jpegs, html etc) just contact me off list.
>>> 
>>> cool.
>>> 
>>> 	bjorn
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